It's nostalgic, weird and creative without overstaying its welcome. Beatable in about 10-15 hours.

The shining beacon in this game is the exploration aspect of it. While it's not a terribly huge game, it's deceptively large by virtue of having tons of secrets, little nooks and crannies and even entirely optional areas. It doesn't really hold your hand or artificially restrict you, even going so far as letting you level up your movement speed and jump height with stat points. You wanna moon jump? Pump those points in, see what happens.
Weapons and spells feel unique and interesting, and keeping the upgrade system minimal actually helps keep a surprising amount of them viable even into the late game. You're not forced to use your +20 Greatsword forever because that's the weapon you sunk all your resources into. Go nuts. Rotate around.

The combat is, uh... not great. Which is kind of to be expected. Very very basic go in, hit, back off, charge up, rinse and repeat. But, again, combat's not the focus here. Exploration and vibes are, and Lunacid delivers both in spades. Really cool experience. Go in blind, stay off the wiki.

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Indie Kings Field-inspired game that is a great time. Someone aptly put it as a "chill nightmare". Great designs and perfectly moody music. Great on Steam Deck.

That being said, there are definitely areas for improvement. I wish the little lore entries weren't primarily from journals haphazardly dropped around. The UI looks great but it can be a hassle maneuvering through it. Combat gets broken the second you start putting points into speed and dex - speed as you're too fast to get hit, dex as you can just kite around enemies using a ranged weapon with infinite ammo. That should have been tweaked a bit. It's not a huge negative as the strongest aspect of this type of game is from the exploration., which I thought was pretty great.